Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Bon Secours Hospital Cork, Ann McKenna revealed that she is seeing children every year between one and a half and three years old seriously injured on Bonfire Night.

The Cork doctor said that GPs and hospitals have witnessed a “significant rise” in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks.

Children as young as age 8 have been exposed. 

Nationally, 521 admitted patients are waiting for beds, according to today’s INMO Trolley Watch. 

Questions are being asked as to why the service is still necessary. 

More than 300 people came together this morning to walk, jog, or run 21km in aid of the Down Syndrome Centre Cork.

"There are hundreds of children, many in crisis, left on waiting lists because of understaffing."

“Since we’ve opened we’ve had 90 visits from older persons, the majority of whom would have ended up in the acute system."

Micheál Martin was presented with the letter by a member of Families Unite for Services and Support (FUSS)

Speaking in Cork yesterday, Mr Martin said that “there is progress being made” on the elective hospital, although he acknowledged that it has been talked about “for a long, long time”.

Tom shared his story as new services for problem gamblers are being rolled out in Cork.

A new report shows there was also a rise in the number of Covid-19 cases reported in Cork last week. 

The Taoiseach visited new Enhanced Community Care services at St Mary's Health Campus in the city today. 

Last month alone, the air ambulance responded to 48 taskings.

Mercy University Hospital recorded the highest average ED waiting time in the country, 21.6 hours, almost twice the national average.

Patients were waiting an average of more than 11 hours to access emergency departments around the country. 

A temporary CAMHS centre has opened in Bandon while work on the new centre is completed.

The latest figures come as consultants voiced concern that years of underinvestment had led to unacceptably long waiting times.

Families Unite for Services and Support (FUSS) held protests in Cork, Dublin and Wexford on Saturday, as they called for urgent action to address concerns around children’s disability services in Ireland.

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has now reported nine confirmed cases of monkeypox in Ireland.

It comes as the HPSC warns that surveillance programmes indicate increased Covid-19 circulation in the community in Ireland. 

The families are calling for urgent action to address concerns around children’s disability services in Ireland.

In February, the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) assessed Tusla’s services in the Cork area against 12 standards.

Yesterday, 74 admitted patients were waiting for beds at Cork, with 546 patients without a bed nationally. 

Prof O’Toole said that the study adds another piece to the jigsaw puzzle that is Covid-19 research and that the results have provided a range of defined targets for interventions.

The Cork doctor said that more older people are also taking holidays abroad, with some overlooking the risks accompanying unprotected intercourse.

Director for Advocacy at the Cork Traveller Visibility Group, Breda O’Donoghue said that suicide in the Traveller community does not discriminate on grounds of age or gender and has taken root with tragic consequences in Cork City.

Help will now be available at Carrigtwohill Family Resource Centre in East Cork for those suffering from gambling addictions.

Consultants have voice concerns that Sláintecare targets are still decades away from being a reality.

The Cork figures account for more than a quarter (27%) of the national waiting list total, which stood at around 7,200 as of February 28.

In CUH, 896 patients were without a bed in May, as well as 372 in the Mercy — both record highs for May in the INMO’s Trolley Watch analysis.

Cork Kerry Community Healthcare chief officer Michael Fitzgerald committed to providing a new 10-bed rehabilitative residential unit in Midleton town, with 24-hour staffing and a focus on supporting people to return to their homes and communities.

While the rest of society is opening up again after the pandemic, Ms Maddox stressed that it’s not the “end game” for carers yet as many face exhaustion with no possibility of a summer break in sight.

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has commented that smoking “causes too many preventable deaths and significant harm to the health of too many people today”.

Cork members of the recently established Families Unite for Services and Support (Fuss) will march on Grand Parade on Saturday, June 11.

“It’s like seeing someone with lung cancer walking in with a cigarette in each hand in that it’s just as dangerous.”

A Cork TD has called on Government members to support a proposal that people with disabilities or serious illnesses, who suffer from incontinence, would receive a waste waiver. 

Mr Donnelly was speaking in the wake of new figures from the HSE, which showed that last month people over the age of 75 had to wait an average of 14 hours for admission to a bed from EDs.

The centre opened in September 2020 and since then carried out an estimated 290,675 swabs before closing on Friday, May 27.

The hub is one of two such hubs for older people in Cork and is part of the national Enhanced Community Care (ECC) programme.

Clinical lead and consultant in emergency medicine at CUH, Professor Conor Deasy, told The Echo that the amount of people over the age of 75 attending the emergency department in CUH, has increased compared to pre-Covid figures.

A spokesperson for Cork Airport said that plans for a sensory room had been paused during the pandemic, but prior to Covid-19 a site had been identified and plans were in place for construction.

It comes as thousands of young people across the country prepare to sit their Leaving Certificate Examinations on Wednesday, June 8.

“We have tried to avoid this action but have been left with no alternative.”

Consultant in infectious diseases at Cork University Hospital (CUH) and Mercy University Hospital (MUH) Dr Arthur Jackson said that while there is no question that the virus “is still circulating”, the spread of the infection is a lot lower this week than four weeks ago.

“The Irish healthcare system has a history of treating women as second-class citizens and the recent fiasco with the supply of menopause treatments has to be seen in that light.”

Cystic Fibrosis Ireland has expressed “deep concern” that these children “are the pawns caught up in a pricing dispute between pharma and the HSE”.

“We’re hoping Minister Butler will have the courage to do the right thing and reverse the closure to preserve and future develop this vital service for East Cork."

“There are a lot of unhappy GPs out there and hospital staff, as well as a good proportion of the population.”

Dr Jackson said that long Covid clinics are a concept that the HSE is delivering for people whose symptoms have been ongoing for longer than 12 weeks, so they can seek some expert input from a multidisciplinary onsite team.